Advertising device.



G. L. THOM.

ADVERTISING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED APR. 6. 1914.

1, 174,201 Patented Mar. 7, 1916;

n oz A w,

THE COLUMBIA PLANUGRAPH C0., WA5HlNuTON. D- C.

UNITED STATES PATENT orrion.

GEORGE I). TI-IOM, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE MADISON COMPANY, INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 7, 1916.

Application filed April 6, 1914. Serial N 0. 830,032.

This invention relates to advertising dis 1 plays, and more particularly, to that type of revolving display actuated by and used in combination with an electric incandescent light.

An object of this invention is to provide an improved manner for making said displays.

A further object of this invention is to provide from a single piece of material a means for making a revolving display to surround or envelop an electric light and actuated by the heated air from said light.

A further object of this invention is to provide an improved means for securing the meeting edges of sections of a sheet of material, when said sections have been bent from a common plane.

A further object of this invention is to provide means for forming a display of a single sheet of material, and to form propelling vanes in said sheet of material before said display is formed.

Further objects will be apparent from the following specification, appended claim and drawings, in which Figure 1 shows one form of display made up, and Fig. 2 shows the blank in plan view from which the display shown in Fig. 1 is made.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a blank having a central portion 10, from which radiate tongues 11 and these tongues may be divided into sections of different dimensions to produce the desired form of display. The remote sections from the cell ter are shown at 12 and 13. One edge of each section has an extension therefrom, and this extension 14 is separated as along a line of scoring 15, and may be bent to assume a plane common to the adjacent section when made up,.and from j each extension is a tongue 16 which is intended to pass through a slit 17 formed in the adjacent section distant from the edge, after which, said tongue is folded and passed through another slit 18, formed between th slit 17 and the edge of the section.

The section nearest to the top section is provided with incisions 18 which form vane 19, which, when the display is made up, are bent to form air currentresisting vanes.

The top section is provided with a metal tip 20 when the display is made of cardboard or paper, and this tip bears upon a support over an electric light. When so disposed, and when the light is illuminated, air currents established by the heat from said light rise, and seek their outlet through the openings from which the vanes 20, when, the vanes resist the passage and set up motion to said display.

Havingthus described this invention, I claim:

A display comprising a flat central top portion, a bearing formed centrally therein, tongues extending radially from said central portion, and bent from the plane of said central portions, said tongues being further bent to provide sections, the sections near the central portion having vanes formed therein for imparting motion to the display,

and the outer sections adapted to bear dis- Copies 01' this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G. 

